Kathmandu, 30 April: The Japan government has announced the recipients of the 2021 Spring Conferment of Decoration, which this year includes a Japanese volunteer who has been working in Nepal since 1983.
Ms Yamane Masako has been recognized for her outstanding contributions as a medical volunteer in Nepal. In recognition of her long-term effort, she has been conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays.
The Japanese Embassy has extended congratulates to Yamane on her achievement. Yamane began her activities in Nepal as a volunteer in the health care sector in 1983 and has been working for more than 30 years. She works with the Rural Health Education and Service Center (RHESC), which was established in 1986 and has been providing medical treatment for socially and economically disadvantaged people in rural areas and suburbs in the northeast area of the Kathmandu Valley. RHESC’s reputation has spread and many people asked for treatment from all over Nepal. They now care for about 15,000 people annually. Two months after the Gorkha Earthquake in 2015, RHESC started a mobile clinic in the earthquake-affected remote mountainous villages, particularly where doctors were not available. Their assistance gave both hope and peace of mind to the people in those areas.
Yamane contributed to better medical service in Nepal and her assistance is also recognized as one of the important support which has been made from Japan to Nepal. She was awarded the Ambassador’s Commendation in 2017.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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